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bill: if you're still a obama fan you're still a obama fan. what about the middle. >> they're going to be undecided. they will be undecided up to election day. one or two votes or one or two decisions. i will vote or not go vote. that is undecided. they will not tip off debate. what happened the first debate, romney became an acceptable alternative. last night he reinforced that. the president fought back and obviously made his side more energized. we have energized electorate, very divided electorate, everybody voting will be important. >> if that is the case, i would imagine those voters wait for monday night. that is when the final bell will ring? >> everybody anticipate as great debate on monday night. foreign affairs is not as important as the economy but still it is very, very important. about leadership. bill: more contentious after the libya debate last night. that thing will be dissected in the media for the next five days until they go back at it. >> it will and deserves to be. at end of the day, whatever the president threw in line
bill: if you're still a obama fan you're still a obama fan. what about the middle. >> they're going to be undecided. they will be undecided up to election day. one or two votes or one or two decisions. i will vote or not go vote. that is undecided. they will not tip off debate. what happened the first debate, romney became an acceptable alternative. last night he reinforced that. the president fought back and obviously made his side more energized. we have energized electorate, very...
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with barack obama saying she should raise taxes on the rich. i see a lot of similarities between what's happening in european where we may be headed in the oo united states. martha: marie lepenn had a very good showing in this election and she was very conservative wanting to go further than nicholas sarkozy. she would not put her backing behind him. if she had he may have won. so what does that say about the need, you know, for conservatives to consolidate their -- get on the same game plan i guess if they want to win? >> that's exactly right. if mitt romney wants to win this election he has to put together a center right voter coalition, which i think he's capable of if those folks can come together. what happened in europe, in my opinion, martha, was just a throw the bumps out, throw the rascals out. there is so much frustration on that continent with no growth in the economy, high unemployment, people just have no confidence in the future. so hopefully we'll have more confidence in the u.s. but this is really what the election in november w
with barack obama saying she should raise taxes on the rich. i see a lot of similarities between what's happening in european where we may be headed in the oo united states. martha: marie lepenn had a very good showing in this election and she was very conservative wanting to go further than nicholas sarkozy. she would not put her backing behind him. if she had he may have won. so what does that say about the need, you know, for conservatives to consolidate their -- get on the same game plan i...
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the obama campaign firing back from the east coast. here is david axlerod. >> selling himself as an economic savior. the massachusetts record was alarmingly weak. he brought the orien takes of a financial engineer whose career has not been about generating job. it's about short-term profits. it's not about long-term growth and building for the future, but taking what he can when he can. heather: mr. axlerod constantly heckled which romney supporters during the speech. molly, first of all -- what was going none the background of david axlerod's speech? >> reporter: that's team romney trying to drown him out. the romney supporters were chanting where are the jobs? and tell the truth. and here is how david axlerod responded to them. >> you can't handle the truth, my friends. that's the problem. >> reporter: you can't handle the truth is what he's saying. what you saw there is part of the reason the romney campaign kept it on the down low that the governor was going to solyndra to prevent the obama campaign from interfering with that press
the obama campaign firing back from the east coast. here is david axlerod. >> selling himself as an economic savior. the massachusetts record was alarmingly weak. he brought the orien takes of a financial engineer whose career has not been about generating job. it's about short-term profits. it's not about long-term growth and building for the future, but taking what he can when he can. heather: mr. axlerod constantly heckled which romney supporters during the speech. molly, first of all...
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look at what obama's done. of course he was leading the charge to overturn and end don't ask don't tell. spoken out for equality with gays. has been good on issue. look at his record versus mitt romney and been all over the place on this why is the media only focusing on this --. bill: you would disagree not a question of leadership? do you agree with that? >> very simple question. how is the president for equality, if against allowing gay people to marry. how is that equality? i'm not defending mitt romney's position on gay people. president of the united states says he for equality for gays and opposes gay marriage. by the way gay groups, gay political lobby gives him a pass on this they give him money. they, laud him as a pro-gay president. even as he opposes their right to get married. how does that work? >> they're judging by actions. >> they're in the tank for the democratic party. >> in the taping? in the tank? which party has been more open to equality for gays? republican party or democrat party, which
look at what obama's done. of course he was leading the charge to overturn and end don't ask don't tell. spoken out for equality with gays. has been good on issue. look at his record versus mitt romney and been all over the place on this why is the media only focusing on this --. bill: you would disagree not a question of leadership? do you agree with that? >> very simple question. how is the president for equality, if against allowing gay people to marry. how is that equality? i'm not...
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referred to obama during the debating suggested obama wasn't telling the truth. this is not a one-way street. let's not act as if one campaign is doing it. word liar was not actually used. no way problem any can make the math add up if he was going to be revenue neutral. in one sentence he said he would not lower taxes on the upper income americans and rather not raise taxes on upper income americans but he would lower the tax rate from 35, 40 to 35% or to 25%. how can both be true? you can't say i'm lowering tax without lowering tax. >> you're raising revenue by eliminating loopholes. >> he didn't say what loopholes he would cut. unless he is going to do that you don't have the math to do it. martha: see he said would take it to congress to decide how loopholes. >> he has not been specific at all. martha: okay. tucker what do you think about this strategy because clearly we're hearing it from everybody from robert gibbs on down the line. >> right. martha: that they are saying a different mitt romney showed up the other night. the president has joked about it. bi
referred to obama during the debating suggested obama wasn't telling the truth. this is not a one-way street. let's not act as if one campaign is doing it. word liar was not actually used. no way problem any can make the math add up if he was going to be revenue neutral. in one sentence he said he would not lower taxes on the upper income americans and rather not raise taxes on upper income americans but he would lower the tax rate from 35, 40 to 35% or to 25%. how can both be true? you can't...
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so corey booker and i support barack obama for president. bill: back up a moment. >> we support his programs, and wroeu that don't take it out of context. bill: i'm not but just to be clear, what booker was saying is there are good people who work on wall street, don't classify them all as evil. >> that's correct and i do take issue with the ad, it is fair game to question romney's claim that he was a job creator while he ran bain, and it's a fair game, i think, to examine his record at bain. what there was a problem with the ad that i saw is that it was misleading, because it omitted a number of important facts that the viewer should see. romney wasn't even there when that plant went down, that plant was about to go bankrupt before bain bought it, brought it back, and in fact, created jobs, and then it went under as the head of the union said because of foreign imports. so the ad is misleading because it omitted those facts, apart from the fact the person at bain is currently an obama buttonedler, when that company went bankrupt. it's just
so corey booker and i support barack obama for president. bill: back up a moment. >> we support his programs, and wroeu that don't take it out of context. bill: i'm not but just to be clear, what booker was saying is there are good people who work on wall street, don't classify them all as evil. >> that's correct and i do take issue with the ad, it is fair game to question romney's claim that he was a job creator while he ran bain, and it's a fair game, i think, to examine his...
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of course president obama got 71%. mitt romney just 27%. compare that to the 44% that president bush got in 2004. you can see the party has its demographics problem. they're talking about softening their stance on immigration. possibly talking about, comprehensive reform that would allow for a path to citizenship, gregg. gregg: dan springer, live in las vegas. don't forget to double down on 20 and split your aces. martha: there is the scene right now on capitol hill. the hearings on libya about to get underway. we'll bring it to you cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll wk his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and me from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, nd he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. is a thrilling, dual-flavored ride to mouth fun-town. but it's not like everyone is going to break int
of course president obama got 71%. mitt romney just 27%. compare that to the 44% that president bush got in 2004. you can see the party has its demographics problem. they're talking about softening their stance on immigration. possibly talking about, comprehensive reform that would allow for a path to citizenship, gregg. gregg: dan springer, live in las vegas. don't forget to double down on 20 and split your aces. martha: there is the scene right now on capitol hill. the hearings on libya about...
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huge win for the obama administration. what is so fascinating, i know we've been talking about it on air is when the statue was passed no one wanted to go near the word tax with a ten-foot pole, that is a poison word. the democrats were very specific it was not a tax. when it got down to florida, and i was in the courtroom that's when the lawyers got into it and said, woul woe, this is a tax and that is different because that is expansive power on the part of congress as opposed to the commerce clause. the chief justice says, just because they called it something else, the politicians, didn't call it a tax, that's like forbidden, just because they called it something else doesn't mean it isn't a tax. the supreme court as far as i can conclude reading this very voluminous desist, this is a tax, and congress can tax. huge win for the obama administration. bigger win for the lawyers, they sat back while the politicians said this wasn't a tax. it was the lawyers that went in and said this is a tax enabling the court here to ag
huge win for the obama administration. what is so fascinating, i know we've been talking about it on air is when the statue was passed no one wanted to go near the word tax with a ten-foot pole, that is a poison word. the democrats were very specific it was not a tax. when it got down to florida, and i was in the courtroom that's when the lawyers got into it and said, woul woe, this is a tax and that is different because that is expansive power on the part of congress as opposed to the commerce...
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>> reporter: he was out in ohio in support of president obama. he seemed at one point to give romney a little bit after gift talking about the economy. one of the questions from tuesday night's debate. here it is. >> governor romney's argument is we're not fixed, fire him and put me in. it is true we're not fixed. when president obama looked into the eyes of that man, who said in the debate, i had so much hope four years ago, and i don't now, i thought he was going to cry. because knows that it is not fixed. >> reporter: republican national committee has an entire ad out now based on what the former president said. he went on to say depends on which path you believe in. he said he believes in barack obama's path to fix the economy. snap poll of people taken after the debate sfwif higher remarks to mitt romney on that front. both candidates have one more campaign event between now and monday night's debate. president will be in george mason university. mitt romney in daytona beach for biketoberfest. both candidates know how much is riding on monda
>> reporter: he was out in ohio in support of president obama. he seemed at one point to give romney a little bit after gift talking about the economy. one of the questions from tuesday night's debate. here it is. >> governor romney's argument is we're not fixed, fire him and put me in. it is true we're not fixed. when president obama looked into the eyes of that man, who said in the debate, i had so much hope four years ago, and i don't now, i thought he was going to cry. because...
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this is pro-obama actress talking about why she voted for obama in 2008. here's part of it. >> first time shouldn't be with just anybody. >> you want to do it with a great guy. should be with a guy with beautiful, someone that really cares about and understands women. bill: goes on from there. there is lot more inthere, frankly. runs about a minute. as a woman how do you react to that. >> it is a get-out-the-vote effort for young unmarried women. the gender gap frankly is closing for romney in many polls they see. they're scared about that. i could do without about do it with a great guy ad. i think maybe you shout that out to your --. bill: what are you driving for there? >> hold on i would like to say that my first time was against john edwards. so i was young and smart. i knew one when i saw one. bill: nice human are. what is behind this? how will that be received, the innuendo in that ad? >> well, i think, you know it caught my attention. just made mary katherine laugh. so i think for older audience, wow, this is too provocative, for young people it is
this is pro-obama actress talking about why she voted for obama in 2008. here's part of it. >> first time shouldn't be with just anybody. >> you want to do it with a great guy. should be with a guy with beautiful, someone that really cares about and understands women. bill: goes on from there. there is lot more inthere, frankly. runs about a minute. as a woman how do you react to that. >> it is a get-out-the-vote effort for young unmarried women. the gender gap frankly is...
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the obama campaign and president obama are the ones that are behind this dishonesty and misrepresentation because they are trying to hide the failure of this a business malpresidency that we have had in office in the last four years. bill: it is true when you talk about this you don't talk about issues. you don't talk about 8.3 unemployment. isn't that not the intent? >> that is the intent. all of a sudden they going to find out that they are losing because of that, not winning, because the public is beginning to understand how dishonest this president and his campaign is, and it is, in my opinion, eroding the only asset he ever had and that was a general, likable feeling that the public add toward him. bill: you say this starts to go against the president's popularity? >> absolutely. and you are right, they are trying to hide really rotten data that came out friday, and the complicity of the liberal media is hiding the reality of the numbers that came out friday. if you go to the website for the bureau of labor statistics, you will find that the very first piece of information in table a
the obama campaign and president obama are the ones that are behind this dishonesty and misrepresentation because they are trying to hide the failure of this a business malpresidency that we have had in office in the last four years. bill: it is true when you talk about this you don't talk about issues. you don't talk about 8.3 unemployment. isn't that not the intent? >> that is the intent. all of a sudden they going to find out that they are losing because of that, not winning, because...
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i think that reflects poorly on obama. maybe it works for him in the polls short term but i think it makes him look crass. hypocritical. he says he was the guy who, you know, don't spike the football and all the rest. we don't do this for a trophy. now making it into a political issue. bill: i heard you say you don't have a problem with him campaigning on this and flying the flag to an extent but i wonder if you have a problem from the moment we saw yesterday with the japanese prime minister in the east room of the white house when it clearly became political at the microphone? >> everything is about degree, right? the ad that was so controversial i don't think it is a problem until it closes with that idiotic, would mitt romney do it thing? all of sudden becomes base partisan thing instead of him taking a bow. in terms of the press conference it just looks like he is lowering the presidency and being partisan and campaign on his official duties trying to get credit for something, to get more credit for something he deserv
i think that reflects poorly on obama. maybe it works for him in the polls short term but i think it makes him look crass. hypocritical. he says he was the guy who, you know, don't spike the football and all the rest. we don't do this for a trophy. now making it into a political issue. bill: i heard you say you don't have a problem with him campaigning on this and flying the flag to an extent but i wonder if you have a problem from the moment we saw yesterday with the japanese prime minister in...
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the obama promised he wouldn't. his argument become two classes, the rich, middle class or the poor. and he is for the poor. actually he is for the rich when they are politically connected to him. so in america, basically means if you have money, you can be close to the president and his administration. if you're not on the right side of his politics though he will demonize you. that is what he is doing to business owners. martha: you make a good point. the president admitted this himself in recent interview, bob. i really thought i could change the culture when i came here to washington. that is something i haven't been successful at. it is very difficult for him to make an argument that he really done anything in an effort to make that happen. >> i think, look, everybody runs for president of the united states says he will change the culture of washington. i can't remember a campaign that hasn't. martha: that's true. >> the answer about campaign contributors getting jobs, mitt romney can say that all he wants beca
the obama promised he wouldn't. his argument become two classes, the rich, middle class or the poor. and he is for the poor. actually he is for the rich when they are politically connected to him. so in america, basically means if you have money, you can be close to the president and his administration. if you're not on the right side of his politics though he will demonize you. that is what he is doing to business owners. martha: you make a good point. the president admitted this himself in...
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the trick for the obama administration and the obama campaign obviously is to galvanize the same level of support that he had in 2008 and in the face of and economy which is stubbornly resistant to recovery. bill? bill: doug mckelway, thank you, from the north lawn of the white house there. we'll watch that clip and pick up the message. thank you, doug. >> reporter: sure thing. jamie: shifting gear as little bit, we're awaiting autopsy results this morning from a body found at one of queen elizabeth's estates. police say it is murder but they have few clues at this point. they are hoping to break that case. bill: also what is next in 2012? ed rollins will examine each candidate in a moment. who's in, who's likely out, who's on life-support and who has new life after last night. rollins on deck. >> we have a tremendous opportunity to continue this momentum. it won't be long there will be an election up in new hampshire. believe me this momentum will continue and this movement is going to continue and we are going to keep scoring just as we have tonight. [applause] [ male announcer ] cra
the trick for the obama administration and the obama campaign obviously is to galvanize the same level of support that he had in 2008 and in the face of and economy which is stubbornly resistant to recovery. bill? bill: doug mckelway, thank you, from the north lawn of the white house there. we'll watch that clip and pick up the message. thank you, doug. >> reporter: sure thing. jamie: shifting gear as little bit, we're awaiting autopsy results this morning from a body found at one of...
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not so much against president obama. we do know he's going talk about new jersey, the experience he had there and the response people have had to cost cutting in his state of new jersey and make the case it can work across the country as well. he's obviously a rising star in this party. this is a big moment for him. all eyes will be on new jersey and chris christie as he takes that podium tuesday night to give the keynote address. martha: can you tell i'm from new jersey? i like hanging around the new jersey delegation. he's also known for one liners. >> i think we'll enjoy the next few days down here in florida. weather will come and go. they brought me down here specifically as i'm sure you know, brought me down here on sunday to make sure if there are any idiots on the beach to tell them to get the hell off the beach. [applause] some lines are so good they never go away. martha: that was always a winner. he's referring to last year when he told people to get off the beach as hurricane irene was threatening his state.
not so much against president obama. we do know he's going talk about new jersey, the experience he had there and the response people have had to cost cutting in his state of new jersey and make the case it can work across the country as well. he's obviously a rising star in this party. this is a big moment for him. all eyes will be on new jersey and chris christie as he takes that podium tuesday night to give the keynote address. martha: can you tell i'm from new jersey? i like hanging around...
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obama. in 2008 he set the expectations bar so high against positioning himself as the only one who could fix it and sort of the transcendent guy would sit above petty politicking and fix the mess. now he is in a position where he has to lower the bar and ratchet it down. guy, we hired you to fix the problem. we didn't hire you to whine about it. we didn't hire you to say we need another term in order to do this. we hired you to do a in space of four years. that will be a miserable failure and a great disappointment. >> as you both point out, lanny admits it is a tough sell. we'll see how t goes tonight. lanny davis and monica in charlotte. martha? martha: they put their lives on the line for our freedom but are our men and women in uniform facing a big obstacle -- look! she wears the scarlet markings! out! your kind is not welcome here! nor your odd predilections! miracle whip is tangy and sweet, not odd. [ villager 1 ] it's evil! if you'd try it, you'd know. she speaketh the truth! [ villag
obama. in 2008 he set the expectations bar so high against positioning himself as the only one who could fix it and sort of the transcendent guy would sit above petty politicking and fix the mess. now he is in a position where he has to lower the bar and ratchet it down. guy, we hired you to fix the problem. we didn't hire you to whine about it. we didn't hire you to say we need another term in order to do this. we hired you to do a in space of four years. that will be a miserable failure and a...
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roll this. >> obama arrived in denver at 2:00 p.m. today, just a few hours before the debate started. romney did his debate prep in denver. when you go to 5,000 feet -- >> exactly. >> and you only have a few hours to adjust. >> that is interesting. >> i don't know, maybe --. bill: did you hear that voice in the background, that's interesting? now, it is true, and it is factual he left vegas around 2:00 in the afternoon. but just on the face, what do you think of that? >> well that may be its effect on vice president gore. i think the president is in peek physical condition. i think he could probably handle 5,000 feet. this is why the president had a problem in the macro explanation, is, people like al gore, suck up to the president. every president lives in a world without pierce, is trapped in this world where nobody can tell him the truth because he is the only president. but i think president more than any other i have seen is surrounded by suck ups, people who reinforce his sense he is above all of this. i think valerie jarrett sa
roll this. >> obama arrived in denver at 2:00 p.m. today, just a few hours before the debate started. romney did his debate prep in denver. when you go to 5,000 feet -- >> exactly. >> and you only have a few hours to adjust. >> that is interesting. >> i don't know, maybe --. bill: did you hear that voice in the background, that's interesting? now, it is true, and it is factual he left vegas around 2:00 in the afternoon. but just on the face, what do you think of...
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obama was sphwhorn. that difference, the 1.72 difference in the price of gasoline, over -- somewhere near 230, $240 billion of expendable, disposable income out of americans' pockets. and here's the problem. when you do it through gasoline, the poor and the middle class are hit the hardest. when gas prices go up, they're the most vulnerable. bill:y just coming into the season. we expect it to go higher, and we'll see the politics and fallout from that. we'll see you at 5bg on "the five", five people at the table, 5:00 eastern time, can't miss it. fives across the board. thank you eric. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> bill you -- julie: you look like a lot like a former president! today is president's day. bill is not running for one, but for many, today means a day off work. do you really know why we celebrate president's day and why you get a day off work, except for us? according to the federal government, president's today actually washington's birthday and even though washington was born on the 22nd, the holiday is
obama was sphwhorn. that difference, the 1.72 difference in the price of gasoline, over -- somewhere near 230, $240 billion of expendable, disposable income out of americans' pockets. and here's the problem. when you do it through gasoline, the poor and the middle class are hit the hardest. when gas prices go up, they're the most vulnerable. bill:y just coming into the season. we expect it to go higher, and we'll see the politics and fallout from that. we'll see you at 5bg on "the...
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president obama is standing by u.s. ambassador susan rice once again, yesterday he spoke to reporters right before he entered a meeting with his cabinet. >> susan rice is extraordinary, continue be prouder ever the job she's done. [applause] martha: nothing like a little public support from your boss to make you feel better. she has definitely been in a very intense situation in recent days. these five republican senators all said that they left a meeting with susan rice this week with a lot more questions than answers. ambassador rice is under fire for her controversial benghazi comments. we remember that those happened in the days after the attack, after others had already said that it was a terrorist attack and she claimed that it was otherwise. bret baier joins us now, he's the anchor of "special report." good morning, good to have you here. martha here. >> reporter: good morning, martha. martha: what does that tell you about what is going on within the cabinet, within the decision making, the second term cabinet re
president obama is standing by u.s. ambassador susan rice once again, yesterday he spoke to reporters right before he entered a meeting with his cabinet. >> susan rice is extraordinary, continue be prouder ever the job she's done. [applause] martha: nothing like a little public support from your boss to make you feel better. she has definitely been in a very intense situation in recent days. these five republican senators all said that they left a meeting with susan rice this week with a...
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obama campaign, seized on that. the president used that as a rip line to ridicule governor romney across the country. this morning they have a new ad about it. >> bernie madoff, ken lay, dennis kozlowski, i will criminals gluttons of greed and evil genius towered over them. one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird. big bird, big bird. >> me, big bird. >> a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it is not wall street you have to worry about. it is "sesame street". >> reporter: that ad was out about couple hours, bringing out "sesame street"'s couldn't saying look at president obama has been talking about this. mentioned big bird eight times. elmo five times. zero mentions about libya and zero plans to fix the economy. this is going in a very interesting direction this morning. bill: back and forth we go. thank you, john. we'll follow the campaign stoplighter in iowa. martha: we'll talk about all that "sesame street" stuff later in the show. governor romney starting his day in the key battleground state o
obama campaign, seized on that. the president used that as a rip line to ridicule governor romney across the country. this morning they have a new ad about it. >> bernie madoff, ken lay, dennis kozlowski, i will criminals gluttons of greed and evil genius towered over them. one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird. big bird, big bird. >> me, big bird. >> a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it is not wall street you have to worry about. it is...
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election night for president obama was flawless. every year, we have a million people down on the lake front for the air and water show. that all happens very -- we know how to do big events here. we do a good job. >> reporter: there will be protests, lots of them. there have already been a battery this week. most have been pretty orderly but there are some that were not orderly. we have video from bridgeport, a section near the south side of chicago, where some disorder broke out amongst some of the protestors, a lot of them protesting the military aspect. keep in mind this is a military alliance and there have been protests and arrests near the obama reelection headquarters which is at the prudential building in chicago, so we've had both orderly and disorderly, the bigger protests come up. martha: i guess any police force is going to have to be on their toes when we get ready for wave upon wave of people out on the streets by virtue of what's going on there. >> reporter: the tough part is the chicago police department doesn't nec
election night for president obama was flawless. every year, we have a million people down on the lake front for the air and water show. that all happens very -- we know how to do big events here. we do a good job. >> reporter: there will be protests, lots of them. there have already been a battery this week. most have been pretty orderly but there are some that were not orderly. we have video from bridgeport, a section near the south side of chicago, where some disorder broke out amongst...
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somehow obama is being protected. there are so many outlets for media and information for the american voters, it's no longer 1950. martha: what do you think, andrea. bob makes a good point. there are a lot of news outlets out there. people have a lot of choices: >> where do the broadcast networks get their news? they get their news from the "new york times" and the newspapers across the country which are mostly owned by the same media conglomerate. everyone from the buffalo news to the "chicago tribune." all of these editorial boards are editorializing on behalf of the president or not doing your job. in 2007 wee saw them drop the ball. they didn't bother to figure out who president obama really is. they didn't do the due diligence. they were too busy rooting through sarah palin's dumpster. how many more people need to die before the media starts to do their job and ask the tough questions. >> come on, andrea. that's going a step too far. >> it's not, bob, it's very serious. >> why didn't "wall street journal" do the
somehow obama is being protected. there are so many outlets for media and information for the american voters, it's no longer 1950. martha: what do you think, andrea. bob makes a good point. there are a lot of news outlets out there. people have a lot of choices: >> where do the broadcast networks get their news? they get their news from the "new york times" and the newspapers across the country which are mostly owned by the same media conglomerate. everyone from the buffalo...
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obama needs to out plan a plan for the future. martha: romney is looking at all the places where he's weak right now and saying i need to go after this group. what is the most compelling argument would you say from both of you, for him, as he tries to gain this group, and president obama too has lost some ground with this group. brad, you go first. >> i teach at georgetown university, i'm around students every day and we just had chris stirewalt at our university with his show yesterday. you know what our students are concerned about? they are concerned about jobs. and the fact is their parents are paying a lot of money or taking on debt to go to a great school but they are afraid this won't be a job at end of their education. they soured on obama. there is no more hope and change for these young people. i've got to tell you if romney stays true to his core beliefs and he's able to communicate with young people on a serious message, they will resonate with young people. martha: we'll see. we'll see how it goes. thanks so much you
obama needs to out plan a plan for the future. martha: romney is looking at all the places where he's weak right now and saying i need to go after this group. what is the most compelling argument would you say from both of you, for him, as he tries to gain this group, and president obama too has lost some ground with this group. brad, you go first. >> i teach at georgetown university, i'm around students every day and we just had chris stirewalt at our university with his show yesterday....
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president obama. the recovery, undeniably weaker than we would like it to be. stephanie cutter is probably going further than she should. net job creation is about the same under george w. bush and under president obama but bottom line, obama's argument is that he turned around a stumbling and dying american economy and is on the path to, some revitallization with all the problems both you and monica rightly cite. martha: you rightly point out in your notes before we+++vñ keep in mind reagan was able to unleash the private sector to get the incredible job creation and economic growth. he deregulated. he cut taxes with with the most unprecedented tax reform in the summer of 1981. barack obama has done the exact opposite. he has enlarged government to unprecedented levels and that's why he is getting the opposite result of the reagan recovery because he has done the opposite of ronald reagan. martha: that's the big question here, the underlying philosophy how to turn things around. whether or not to re
president obama. the recovery, undeniably weaker than we would like it to be. stephanie cutter is probably going further than she should. net job creation is about the same under george w. bush and under president obama but bottom line, obama's argument is that he turned around a stumbling and dying american economy and is on the path to, some revitallization with all the problems both you and monica rightly cite. martha: you rightly point out in your notes before we+++vñ keep in mind reagan...
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there is a narrow lead for president obama. so romney needs to make the case affirmatively for his program and why it's better than the president's. this is not just a referendum. this was the romney theory going in. he needs to prove that he's a better choice for the next four years. >> people are still persuadable. 15% is a pretty big number. if you look at undecided voters in most polls it's around 6%. but rich is right. people will pay attention to this and they will look for something maybe to make them change their minds for people who aren't completely thrilled about their choice which actually i think in both parties it's most people. most people aren't that excited about their choice. but it's mostly the independent voters they will have to focus on. bill: you make the case this debate is really for them. the persuadables. >> it's not just for them. it's for those in certain states. it's great that we can talk about the race, what's happening nationally. but what matters is what's happening in battle ground states. and
there is a narrow lead for president obama. so romney needs to make the case affirmatively for his program and why it's better than the president's. this is not just a referendum. this was the romney theory going in. he needs to prove that he's a better choice for the next four years. >> people are still persuadable. 15% is a pretty big number. if you look at undecided voters in most polls it's around 6%. but rich is right. people will pay attention to this and they will look for...
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unless -- nevertheless, it did say something about barack obama. martha: there were regrets john mccain wouldn't go after that issue. who knows fit would have had a change on the outcome of that election. about it raises questions about what's fair. there is i a front-page story about mitt romney and things that happened in high school. high school pranks that were talked about. is this where the american people want to be in this conversation? >> absolutely not. they don't want to be there. they don't want to talk about what happened 50 years ago. they don't want guilt by association. they don't want to deal with these issues of peripheral people that may or may not have played a role in people's lives. they want to talk about the economy, jobs and how do we get america revitalized. that's what people care about. that's what the campaign should be about. martha: let's start with the white house statement. this came out before governor romney came out with his renuns yaition of all this yesterday. this is from jim messina from the campaign. that's
unless -- nevertheless, it did say something about barack obama. martha: there were regrets john mccain wouldn't go after that issue. who knows fit would have had a change on the outcome of that election. about it raises questions about what's fair. there is i a front-page story about mitt romney and things that happened in high school. high school pranks that were talked about. is this where the american people want to be in this conversation? >> absolutely not. they don't want to be...
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show weill hear from president obama. he will step to the stage in front of the podium at the united nations general assembly. that will happen at 10:00 eastern. big moment for the president because critics have been saying he should have been more focused on the dramatic events that have been unfolding including the murder of four americans at our consulate in libya. governor romney hitting the president on the campaign trail for referring to the turmoil going on there as bumps in the road. >> there are extraordinary events going on in the middle east. considering those events either one of them or all of them collectively as bumps in the road shows a person who has very different perspective about world affairs than the perspective i have. i think this is time for america to exert leadership. this is not something we're doing in the middle east. frankly the course we're on domestically left so many people behind. i think we have to take a very different course than the course that has been followed last four years. bill
show weill hear from president obama. he will step to the stage in front of the podium at the united nations general assembly. that will happen at 10:00 eastern. big moment for the president because critics have been saying he should have been more focused on the dramatic events that have been unfolding including the murder of four americans at our consulate in libya. governor romney hitting the president on the campaign trail for referring to the turmoil going on there as bumps in the road....
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if barack obama loses, there's no way he's going to extend the tax cuts. and if they have a replay of last time where there's a potential government shutdown, an air of crisis, they were thinking that the spending bill could turn into a christmas tree, the democrats could shove whatever they want this there and hold it over the republicans who were threatening to destroy the economy again with a government shutdown. basically, the republicans flinch inside a way. it was a strategic anybody. ed. -- flinched. everything's going to be decided on the presidential race -- bill: and hen we pick it up in -- and then we pick it up in january. you mentioned the tea party, and there was a significant race last night in texas. however, what john boehner is ready to argue is let's put the focus back on the economy and not on us. fair statement? >> i think it's a fair -- i mean, again, i think boehner was probably doing the right thing, and the fact that so many members of the tea party caucus are basically okay with this is a sign that this was, this was -- bill: well
if barack obama loses, there's no way he's going to extend the tax cuts. and if they have a replay of last time where there's a potential government shutdown, an air of crisis, they were thinking that the spending bill could turn into a christmas tree, the democrats could shove whatever they want this there and hold it over the republicans who were threatening to destroy the economy again with a government shutdown. basically, the republicans flinch inside a way. it was a strategic anybody. ed....
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obama and the direction. bill: four in 10 democratic voters choose someone other than president obama. how long can they run with that? is that a day or more than that? >> i don't this it will be very long. there will be late night jokes on the comedy channels but in the long run i don't think this is something that will be so significant for the president. bill: jamie, thanks for coming in. jamie weinstein from the daily caller. appreciate your time there in washington, d.c.. >> thank you for having me. bill: martha. martha: on the other side of the aisle governor romney swept the contests in arkansas and kentucky. so he inched a bit closer to that gop nomination for president. he is now 79 delegates shy of the magic number which is 1144. so getting pretty close there. a win in the texas primary this week will likely seal his victory. bill: also, martha, a new poll out revealing a bit of trouble rather in the south and the critical swing state of florida, the latest quinnipiac university poll, showing govern
obama and the direction. bill: four in 10 democratic voters choose someone other than president obama. how long can they run with that? is that a day or more than that? >> i don't this it will be very long. there will be late night jokes on the comedy channels but in the long run i don't think this is something that will be so significant for the president. bill: jamie, thanks for coming in. jamie weinstein from the daily caller. appreciate your time there in washington, d.c.. >>...
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bluffs in the wernl part of iowa saying i am the only one who can go the distance against president obama in november. i'm the one you have to vote for on caucus night. bill: 55 miles an hour, john roberts on the road in dubuque, iowa. thank you very much for that. knew year's night on times square. one politician advertising on the billboards. romney 2012. very surprising strategy. martha: john, makes a good point there. electability. iowa has to decide whether or not they want to continue to be on the map in the electoral process by picking a winner. if they go that route and want someone electable. some of the polls indicate they may lean that way. the race in past couple days getting feisty. newt gingrich is claiming his rival is trying to buy his name to the nomination ahead of the iowa caucuses. gingrich angry over a slew of negative ads launched by romney supporters out there. listen to what newt had to say. >> mr. speaker, what did you say coming out of mass that it appears governor romney is trying to buy an election? >> i was looking at the "politico" analysis that the huge at o
bluffs in the wernl part of iowa saying i am the only one who can go the distance against president obama in november. i'm the one you have to vote for on caucus night. bill: 55 miles an hour, john roberts on the road in dubuque, iowa. thank you very much for that. knew year's night on times square. one politician advertising on the billboards. romney 2012. very surprising strategy. martha: john, makes a good point there. electability. iowa has to decide whether or not they want to continue to...
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bush had a 78% as well and president obama has a 77%. but there are still those dozens of vacancies martha. martha: very interesting. why the hold up? >> reporter: republicans and democrats as you might guess disagree on that. republicans say the president isn't moving quickly enough and nominating judges for the jobs. the democrats, including the white house say the g.o.p. is slowing the confirmation proce process. >> when you look at facts, however, the reason for so much of the delay is because republican senators are not allowing obama nominees to move forward to their hearings. >> they are making it to the floor for a confirmation vote within a very reasonable period of time after their hearing and after their vote in the judiciary committee. so they are being confirmed, it's just that the president hasn't nominated most of these slots. >> what these vacancies mean to americans and businesses is that their cases don't get heard and resolved in a timely fashion. martha: imagine that the wheels turning slowly. hard to believe. molly,
bush had a 78% as well and president obama has a 77%. but there are still those dozens of vacancies martha. martha: very interesting. why the hold up? >> reporter: republicans and democrats as you might guess disagree on that. republicans say the president isn't moving quickly enough and nominating judges for the jobs. the democrats, including the white house say the g.o.p. is slowing the confirmation proce process. >> when you look at facts, however, the reason for so much of the...
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and john mccain against obama and tipped the election in obama's favor. not me who thinks it, the pretty itself looking at itself maybe we haven't been the fairest. bill: juan you're squinting when she is talking there. >> giving me a side eye? >> i think she's on target when she says if you ask reporters, are they more likely to be democrats or republicans, they're more likely to be democrats and liberals not any question. the other side of this if you ask owners, ask editors they're more likely to be republican. i think the american people are smart enough to reach conclusions for themselves. i don't think anybody is selling them a bill of goods and bunch of dummies who swallow it whole cloth. i think people are critical consumers of news media, when you ask them about defending obama and attacking romney, that's why you get results in fox poll. when you ask him about fairness is it fair that's when you get the different set of results, you know what, people are getting in some sense what they deserve when they do stupid things. >> like mess up in bengh
and john mccain against obama and tipped the election in obama's favor. not me who thinks it, the pretty itself looking at itself maybe we haven't been the fairest. bill: juan you're squinting when she is talking there. >> giving me a side eye? >> i think she's on target when she says if you ask reporters, are they more likely to be democrats or republicans, they're more likely to be democrats and liberals not any question. the other side of this if you ask owners, ask editors...
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i agree with the old barack obama. he's referring to the president's past words in 2004 where he said he thought marriage was between a man and woman and he didn't think marriage was a civil right. bill: house speaker john boehner about the possibility of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. >> reporter: i haven't seen this proposal. all i know is it's a very controversial issue in our country. but most people believe that marriage is a union of a man and woman. but again our focus here on the hill is on the economy and getting the american people back to work. martha: north carolina banned state marriage. those states have 300 electoral votes. a candidate needs 270 to become president of the united states. minnesota will do so this november. also on election day you have got maryland, washington that will vote on same-sex marriage. it's something that will be on a lot of ballots as we head forward. bill: got a fox news alert. massive explosions rocking damascus, syria. the assad regime claiming an attack ki
i agree with the old barack obama. he's referring to the president's past words in 2004 where he said he thought marriage was between a man and woman and he didn't think marriage was a civil right. bill: house speaker john boehner about the possibility of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. >> reporter: i haven't seen this proposal. all i know is it's a very controversial issue in our country. but most people believe that marriage is a union of a man and woman. but again our...
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the obama campaign seems to be suggesting that there is something scary about the romney folks. there is a lot of talk about him being a throwback, that he's old fashioned, stuck in the mud, that kind of stuff seems to be, and that president obama is cool and forward looking. do you think that works, and do you think that makes people shy away from mitt romney? >> no, i think it's part of this new cycle, running on the fact that romney is tying himself to berther trump. this is the story today and the cycle will move and and there will be other themes. it's not one theme in may that carries through until after labor day, that's not the way it works. martha: whenever you are running for re-election, tucker believe never remember what your slogan was. i think our slogan is what you've done over the past three and a half years. i don't remember bill clinton's re-election khroeg began slogan, i think it becomes a nonissue doesn't it? >> you remember the story that the slogans point to, you remember the narrative that unfolds over the course of a campaign. you know the core message t
the obama campaign seems to be suggesting that there is something scary about the romney folks. there is a lot of talk about him being a throwback, that he's old fashioned, stuck in the mud, that kind of stuff seems to be, and that president obama is cool and forward looking. do you think that works, and do you think that makes people shy away from mitt romney? >> no, i think it's part of this new cycle, running on the fact that romney is tying himself to berther trump. this is the story...
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as people look at his record and imagine him debating obama, obama will laugh at him. bill: that is a sharper tact than he has taken to this point. will it work? >> well, gingrich has got to try it because he boxed himself in iowa by pledging to run a positive campaign. meanwhile a pro-romney super pac beating him up every day in radio and television ads and gingrich's support fell considerably. from the very beginning of this race there was a theory of the race it was a two-candidate race. there was mitt romney on one side and anti-romney on the other side. the problem was there were five or six candidates competing to be the anti-romney and they all beat up on each other. a couple days ago, seems like a light bulb went off in everybody's head and wait a minute, we need to attack mitt romney instead. if voters want an alternative to romney they need a candidate who can make the best case against romney. in new hampshire and south carolina the fellow candidates going after romney not only debates, we haven't had a debate since the fox debate in sioux city on december f
as people look at his record and imagine him debating obama, obama will laugh at him. bill: that is a sharper tact than he has taken to this point. will it work? >> well, gingrich has got to try it because he boxed himself in iowa by pledging to run a positive campaign. meanwhile a pro-romney super pac beating him up every day in radio and television ads and gingrich's support fell considerably. from the very beginning of this race there was a theory of the race it was a two-candidate...
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romney 32, obama 32. that has to be a disconcerting number that they are sealing in the fox news polling. the numbers that came out from the columbus dispatch in ohio today, 45-45. every one we bring on here, we ask them what explains why these numbers simply do not move? what is your explanation? >> look at the country is polarized. we are locked in. there are a small number of people who have not made up their mind. even on the independents, they recently had owe bam autopsy by 10. in 089 obama was plus 8, now x see him down by ten. that is an 8-point swing. we've seen four swings between obama and romney. it continues to reflect the unsettled nature of the very small percentage of people who haven't made up their mind. bill: they want to figure out what mitt romney is all about. the other thing he said over the weekend is that barack obama had every piece of legislation he wanted passed, and romney is going to make the case that it did not work because we are stuck above 8% unemployment. and then he's
romney 32, obama 32. that has to be a disconcerting number that they are sealing in the fox news polling. the numbers that came out from the columbus dispatch in ohio today, 45-45. every one we bring on here, we ask them what explains why these numbers simply do not move? what is your explanation? >> look at the country is polarized. we are locked in. there are a small number of people who have not made up their mind. even on the independents, they recently had owe bam autopsy by 10. in...
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that would bay down obama's debt by economic growth. eliminating deductions and credits to give the government more money to spend not only wastes more money, raises taxes, it guts tax reform in the future. this is something the "wall street journal" knows and steve moore wrote about just last saturday. we ought to be going for lower marginal tax rates to have economic growth, and of course obama wants republicans, some republicans to start a discussion about how they'd raise taxes, while nobody has asked him or van hollen on your show what spending cuts are you talking about, he mentioned spending cuts -- stpho: it's a fair point and dick durbin a democratic senator from illinois is going to say you need to separate the fiscal cliff discussions from any talk about reforming medicare or medicaid. the bottom line in all of this is you're not going to get a vote that passes in the house unless democrats concede on the entitlement programs, and that there is the stalemate, in the 15 seconds i have left, right or wrong? >> well the challeng
that would bay down obama's debt by economic growth. eliminating deductions and credits to give the government more money to spend not only wastes more money, raises taxes, it guts tax reform in the future. this is something the "wall street journal" knows and steve moore wrote about just last saturday. we ought to be going for lower marginal tax rates to have economic growth, and of course obama wants republicans, some republicans to start a discussion about how they'd raise taxes,...
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obama? >> i think she is lovely, and i think, you know, as everyone can appreciate it is a very difficult position to be in, where your husband is under enormous scrutiny all the time and attacks from one side or the other and yet to be able to keep your calm and to be able to have your composure, we appreciate that and see that in her. martha: you talk about the struggles that you've been through in our life and faith i'm sure has been a big part of getting you through those. how do you feel that has served you as a wife and mother? >> you have a choice when you're hit with something really hard, and you can curl and give up or you can just push and keep going. and for me, for a while i have to tell you it was really difficult, and i felt like doing the first and feeling very sorry for myself, but then you have the resources of the people that you love around you, and giving you encouragement but then you finally learn how to dig really deep and to say, i'm going to get through this. i thin
obama? >> i think she is lovely, and i think, you know, as everyone can appreciate it is a very difficult position to be in, where your husband is under enormous scrutiny all the time and attacks from one side or the other and yet to be able to keep your calm and to be able to have your composure, we appreciate that and see that in her. martha: you talk about the struggles that you've been through in our life and faith i'm sure has been a big part of getting you through those. how do you...
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and the obama economy is not a healthy economy. gregg: but senator, what about the cumulative decifit? we're looking at the u.s. national debt clock, ticking away right now. but the decifit is expected to exceed $10 trillion over the next ten years. and extending the tax cuts would add an estimated $3.7 trillion to that. so aren't you making the debt and decifit much worse? >> well, by raising taxes on all americans, you're actually hurting the economy. what we need is more people working. we need an opportunity economy, a growth economy, a healthy economy, ways to get people back to work. if we have more people working and paying taxes, that's the way for over all tax revenue to go up and to deal with this. but you're right, the decifit is awful, the president continues to spend more, and when he wants to raise taxes, it's not to actually get the decifit under control, it's because he has more ideas on how to spend the money. and i said mr. president, it's not your money. gregg: but senator, there are some democrats who say wait a
and the obama economy is not a healthy economy. gregg: but senator, what about the cumulative decifit? we're looking at the u.s. national debt clock, ticking away right now. but the decifit is expected to exceed $10 trillion over the next ten years. and extending the tax cuts would add an estimated $3.7 trillion to that. so aren't you making the debt and decifit much worse? >> well, by raising taxes on all americans, you're actually hurting the economy. what we need is more people...
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where is president obama? he doesn't have time to do that? as i said last night in the talking points memo, abraham lincoln did that every week. in the middle of the civil war when things were going bad for the north he still took time to right wrongs on an individual basis. mr. obama can't do that? where is secretary of state clinton? is she unconscious or something? where is she? these people can rally public opinion and make the mexican government act. obama and clinton could do that, but so far in public they haven't. behind the scenes, maybe, could be, possible, but then jay carney tellsed henry our white house guy, oh i don't know anything about it. martha: which was very odd. one would hope that the answer to that question is, oh, there are all kinds of things going on behind the scenes. but the family doesn't seem to believe that, do they? >> well they haven't heard anything. the president hasn't called the family. look, here is the travesty of this. let's just get right down to it, okay? and i'm talking to obama supporters right now,
where is president obama? he doesn't have time to do that? as i said last night in the talking points memo, abraham lincoln did that every week. in the middle of the civil war when things were going bad for the north he still took time to right wrongs on an individual basis. mr. obama can't do that? where is secretary of state clinton? is she unconscious or something? where is she? these people can rally public opinion and make the mexican government act. obama and clinton could do that, but so...
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president obama wants to raise tax rates. mitt romney wants to change, he basically wants tax reform which would lower tax rates but bring in more money from the wealthy. depends how you go about it. most economists would say that if you raise tax rates on the wealthy, that does not help the economy. most economists would say if you have tax reform, lower rates, fewer loopholes, more money to the treasury, you help the economy. bill: that is going to play out in a significant way as we move forward to november. >> that is the election, bill. bill: stuart, thank you. see you 9:15 on fbn. stuart varney leading the coverage. martha has more on this. martha: that is the election, bill right there. let's get context on the job situation. this is where we've been since december 2007. the peak for jobless numbers, 659,000 back in 2009. that is long way from where we are today as you can see. but when you get a close-up at the end of that chart, you will see if you can, that there is recent up tick at the end of that. the yellow line
president obama wants to raise tax rates. mitt romney wants to change, he basically wants tax reform which would lower tax rates but bring in more money from the wealthy. depends how you go about it. most economists would say that if you raise tax rates on the wealthy, that does not help the economy. most economists would say if you have tax reform, lower rates, fewer loopholes, more money to the treasury, you help the economy. bill: that is going to play out in a significant way as we move...
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obama walked away from it as well. i'm not so sure he should have done that the report was it wasn't mandetory the way it was supposed to be mandatory. without that, you won't get anywhere we'll have to have mandatory votes. >> we're talking about taxes investments right? with the highest corporate rate, taxing investments. we're not growing anything. that is the bottom line. >> not highest corporate tax rate. martha: you guys bring up a interesting point. we'll talk to eric finnstrom in a little while from the romney campaign. how serious is mitt romney about serious tax reforms that would eliminate loopholes and in is sense, in reality, force some people to pay more taxes in the tax bracket anyway. look forward to see you at 5:00. >> all right. gregg: mystery over the brand new millionaire in red bud, illinois, finally solved. lottery officials set to name the lucky person from a tiny town getting a very big check. martha: only person in a small town with a ferrari perhaps. that is how they figured it out. we're hear
obama walked away from it as well. i'm not so sure he should have done that the report was it wasn't mandetory the way it was supposed to be mandatory. without that, you won't get anywhere we'll have to have mandatory votes. >> we're talking about taxes investments right? with the highest corporate rate, taxing investments. we're not growing anything. that is the bottom line. >> not highest corporate tax rate. martha: you guys bring up a interesting point. we'll talk to eric...
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ohio, obama, 46.6, romney, 45.2. virginia, obama, 47.3, romney, 46.7. they are all within the margin of error, ed? >> every, single one of these states is competitive and every, single one of those states are winnable for romney. he has to win them all, obviously, but, at the end of the day, what traditionally happens, the president's numbers, incumbent's number is pretty much what he gets and i expect the president to get around the 46, 47 showing up there, which gives us the opportunity to go over that number, and win those states. >> bill: let's talk about a bump, off the convention, now, it can be debated many different ways over time, as to whether or not there is a significant bump and whether it matters or not and whether or not the convention, so closely timed with -- conventions closely timed with one another cancel each other out. rasmussen says romney got a 5-point bump off the convention, now up 3 in the snapshot, 47-44 and that is a three-day rolling average which means all the polling since tampa is not complete. three points, does it stay
ohio, obama, 46.6, romney, 45.2. virginia, obama, 47.3, romney, 46.7. they are all within the margin of error, ed? >> every, single one of these states is competitive and every, single one of those states are winnable for romney. he has to win them all, obviously, but, at the end of the day, what traditionally happens, the president's numbers, incumbent's number is pretty much what he gets and i expect the president to get around the 46, 47 showing up there, which gives us the opportunity...
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obama with ads in florida and elsewhere for his, obama's 716 billion in medicare cuts, and his plan to cut even more with an unelected rationing board whose decisions under obamacare have no legislative or judicial review. is that a good idea? does romney need to go on the offensive like that? >> look i think there is absolutely no question that he needs to go on the offensive. one of the most interesting things about choosing paul ryan as his running mate is it allows him to do that. i think you've seen the romney campaign to a certain extent on the defense for the past four to six weeks. and choosing paul ryan allows him to make this positive argument and it's really, as mitt romney has said, is a leadership argument. president obama has not made the kind of long-term structural reforms to the entitlement programs that the country need. nobody disputes that. he doesn't done this despite the fact that he said that he would, and republicans are offering something a little bit different. i think it's a very strong argument and i would go on the offense witness. gregg: steven hayes senio
obama with ads in florida and elsewhere for his, obama's 716 billion in medicare cuts, and his plan to cut even more with an unelected rationing board whose decisions under obamacare have no legislative or judicial review. is that a good idea? does romney need to go on the offensive like that? >> look i think there is absolutely no question that he needs to go on the offensive. one of the most interesting things about choosing paul ryan as his running mate is it allows him to do that. i...
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for four years, president obama has been spending a lot of money. we've still got an economy growing at best, 2 1/2% in the third quarter. it may be lower than that in the fourth quarter of this year. bill: that is only error in the quiver. we can print money. >> ben bernanke tried everything. now into his fourth round essentially of money printing. this time buying 40 billion in mortgages. 45 million in treasury securities. he will go into a fifth year of money printing. bill: one more point. this move was designed to help the banks anyway, right? feds are buying bad mortgages we're ultimately paying for that. >> 40 billion of this money printing going into the mortgage market. bill: that would help the housing market? >> it is intention, to keep the flenl link housing recovery going by keeping mortgage rates way, way down. bill: i hope you're right. stuart varney, see you at 9:20 on fbn. good deal. over the last four years the federal reserve pumped money into the economy three times. this last announcement marks the fourth round for that. >> ther
for four years, president obama has been spending a lot of money. we've still got an economy growing at best, 2 1/2% in the third quarter. it may be lower than that in the fourth quarter of this year. bill: that is only error in the quiver. we can print money. >> ben bernanke tried everything. now into his fourth round essentially of money printing. this time buying 40 billion in mortgages. 45 million in treasury securities. he will go into a fifth year of money printing. bill: one more...
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we want to get rid of obama-care we'll have to replace president obama. my mission is to make sure we do exactly that. patti ann: monica crowley the author of the book "what the bleep just happened." juan, this morning congressman paul ryan says with this decision the court raised the stakes in this election. romney since the ruling has raised $4.2 million from 42,000 individual donors. will romney benefit politically? >> that's a lot of money to raise in a 24-hour cycle. he stirred the base or the court stirred the base and romney's response to promise to repeal it delivered on something that was satisfying to a conservative base that was disappointed with ned's ruling. the question is whether the conservatives can sustain that anger. if they sustain it they may get a 2010 mid-term result when they brought 63 republicans into the house. but can they sustain it after the supreme court decision that was much anticipated. >> this is not just the conservative base we are talking about here. this bill's unpop laisht has only increased over time as more and mo
we want to get rid of obama-care we'll have to replace president obama. my mission is to make sure we do exactly that. patti ann: monica crowley the author of the book "what the bleep just happened." juan, this morning congressman paul ryan says with this decision the court raised the stakes in this election. romney since the ruling has raised $4.2 million from 42,000 individual donors. will romney benefit politically? >> that's a lot of money to raise in a 24-hour cycle. he...
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my problem with the obama administration and obama policies is we're leading from behind at a time we desperately need bold leadership. his foreign policy makes me long for the decisive days of jimmy carter. in 2009 when the iranian people took to the streets trying to overthrow the ayatollahs, barack obama sat on the sideline and said he didn't want to get involved because he didn't want to jeopardize his chance to work with the iranian regime. when a wonderful opportunity lost, leaving afghanistan, never talking about it. sitting on the sidelines and watching syrians get slaughtered. throwing israelis under the bus. this is a very weak, ill-conceived foreign policy and our problems are not the films. or problems are with our commander-in-chief. gregg: senator, speaking of iran you have a resolution that will as i understand it be voted on perhaps today that would put the u.s. senate on record as ruling out a strategy of containment with respect to iran. are you convinced that in fact that is sort of secretly the president's strategy here, containment, and that he is not being truthf
my problem with the obama administration and obama policies is we're leading from behind at a time we desperately need bold leadership. his foreign policy makes me long for the decisive days of jimmy carter. in 2009 when the iranian people took to the streets trying to overthrow the ayatollahs, barack obama sat on the sideline and said he didn't want to get involved because he didn't want to jeopardize his chance to work with the iranian regime. when a wonderful opportunity lost, leaving...
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look, senator obama said the surge would never work. president obama got us out. we should have had a residual force there. we spent so much blood and treasure in iraq it's now unraveling. the maliki ke malikis is in the camp of the iranians. the country is in danger of breaking up into sunni and kurds. we won the war and lost the peace. all the president does is tell people we are withdrawing. the al-qaida, the taliban and others draw the appropriate conclusions, and of course in syria, here is people standing up and literally sacrificing their lives and not only will we not help them by giving them arms to have -- so it would be more of a fair fight, when is the last time you heard the president of the united states say a word in behalf of these people who are being mass occurred? they take all these lessons, and then they draw appropriate conclusions. martha: yeah, you know, when i listen to hillary clinton talking about the movie, to me it is so striking, you know, and i am asking this to you, are we looking at a situation that we may see pass and settle down
look, senator obama said the surge would never work. president obama got us out. we should have had a residual force there. we spent so much blood and treasure in iraq it's now unraveling. the maliki ke malikis is in the camp of the iranians. the country is in danger of breaking up into sunni and kurds. we won the war and lost the peace. all the president does is tell people we are withdrawing. the al-qaida, the taliban and others draw the appropriate conclusions, and of course in syria, here...
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what do you have between romney and obama, scott? >> 49% for romney, 47% for obama. very significantly this is exactly the same as what we showed going into the second debate. governor romney gained that after the first debate of the president obama had a better performance and stopped his slide but didn't turn things around. bill: what is a leaner, scott? is likely voter or more than that? >> a leaner who is someone we first call them, saying i don't know. i'm not sure which way i'm going to vote. we say if you had to make up your mind today, which way would you vote? these people are not really committed but starting to lean. bill: on the map you give us numbers from one of the critical swing states out in the american west. i want to set this up for our viewers here in a moment. what we have done, we have taken 11 states right now considered too close to call, north carolina is included in that on our survey by the way right now but you just found out a short time ago the state of colorado, you were polling, in 2008, this was a state that went blue. you see how cl
what do you have between romney and obama, scott? >> 49% for romney, 47% for obama. very significantly this is exactly the same as what we showed going into the second debate. governor romney gained that after the first debate of the president obama had a better performance and stopped his slide but didn't turn things around. bill: what is a leaner, scott? is likely voter or more than that? >> a leaner who is someone we first call them, saying i don't know. i'm not sure which way...
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she was a clinton person and went with obama early in 2006 and 2007. there is a lot of loyalty there and the president could count on her. bill: within a week, you were five days when you saw susan rice in the following image. five different sunday talk shows on every network on that sunday. now here is part of the interview on "fox news sunday" wherechris wallace started all of this too, listen. >> what happened initially it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo. as a consequence of the video. people gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. bill: as a consequence of the video. do we get to the bottom of benghazi now? >> well, republicans are certainly going to keep trying. hillary clinton who had a much bigger role in all this, will testify before the house and the senate soon but i tell you they're very frustrated. representative jason chaffetz who is helping lead this investigation in the house, wants to talk to a lot of people who were survivors of this attack. it is not just that ambassador stevens and
she was a clinton person and went with obama early in 2006 and 2007. there is a lot of loyalty there and the president could count on her. bill: within a week, you were five days when you saw susan rice in the following image. five different sunday talk shows on every network on that sunday. now here is part of the interview on "fox news sunday" wherechris wallace started all of this too, listen. >> what happened initially it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just...